Need to Know

NEED TO KNOW is an integrated broadcast and online current affairs project, uniting broadcast and web in an innovative approach to newsgathering and reporting. It breaks through the limitations of the broadcast schedule by means of a web-based production model that empowers audiences to "tune in" anytime and anywhere. A cross-media initiative built around a wide community of journalists and producers, with input from an engaged audience, NEED TO KNOW covers five primary beats: the economy; the environment and energy; health; security; and culture. Stories, interviews, blogs and photo features are continually added to and updated online, with the production teams inviting interaction and input from online readers and users who are on the lookout for the latest information on a given subject. Each week's online story development culminates in the weekly broadcast, curated from the week's reporting by the various beat teams. The broadcast features documentary-style field reports, both domestic and international, short features and studio-based interviews and conversation to complement and advance the produced reports.

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Massachusetts mandate update

Dying to get back

Help Wanted: Retraining America

Debating the Second Amendment

Financial literacy

Main Street: Findlay, Ohio

Behavioral economics at work

Economic inequality and mobility

Medical Devices

Main Street: Salinas, California

After Newtown: Gone Boy

Banned in Arizona

Can Medicare Be Fixed?

Manufacturing Jobs

Do No Harm and Danish Medical Courts

Ending Paralysis: New Jersey and Germany

A Tale of Four Tax Returns

The Long-term Care Challenge

Frequent Fliers and Healthcare Reform

Family Rewards

The Family Planning Fight

Crossing the line at the border: Update

Employment's new look

Money Matters: Life after Citizens United

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